Introducing THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS of architecture and design: "Serge often roused himself from a serious conversation with, 'Chris, let's go get a sandwich.' This was in fact a rallying cry for martinis," recalls CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER of his mentor SERGE CHERMAYEFF, the charismatic Russian tango-champion-turned-design-legend who began the creative dynasty featured in this issue's 32-page cover dossier. Meet IVAN CHERMAYEFF, the original Mad Man, PETER CHERMAYEFF, aquatic architect, and Berlin's newest spark plug, SAM CHERMAYEFF, with essays, interviews and memories by CARSON CHAN, THOMAS DEMAND, MICHAEL ROCK, and HANS ULRICH OBRIST. Elsewhere JUERGEN TELLER and IRINA KULIKOVA maraud in SYLVIE AUVRAY's masks; CORNELIUS TITTEL resurrects the sex and successes of JIRI GEORG DOKOUPIL; New York's preeminent avant-garde skate shop still reigns SUPREME (while remaining a mysterious church of cool); the 20th century's best-dressed journalist, Hamburg media myth FRITZ J. RADDATZ gets canonized; CALVIN KLEIN... needs no superlatives, thanks especially to Men's Creative Director ITALO ZUCCHELLI; man about town CLEMENS WEISSHAAR makes seven pronouncements on design, simulation and competition; ANA and DANKO STEINER pack some heat; 032c’s latest SELECT presents the best of this season’s books, products, and ideas; a special front section finally tells readers WHAT WE BELIEVE, and so much more on 260 pages....

"I got my first tat in 1978. None of you were even born yet. You really missed out." - NAN GOLDIN in a letter to SCOTT CAMPBELL, the young and famous tattoo artist featured in this issue's 40-page cover dossier, complete with poetry from French modernist FRANCIS PICABIA and a little-known short story by SYLVIA PLATH. Elsewhere AZZEDINE ALAÏA bares his love for animals and women; English artist HELEN MARTEN builds a page-specific installation; dream boys OLAFUR ELIASSON and KEVIN KELLY get techno-Utopian; AL-JAZEERA proves it's the media outlet of the new millennium; LUCAS OSSENDRIJVER takes LANVIN to the frontiers of men's wear design; FERNANDO ROMERO builds an art museum in Mexico for the world's richest man; DANKO and ANA STEINER go downtown with LEELEE SOBIESKI and Salem's JOHN HOLLAND; Munich magazine magnate Dr. HUBERT BURDA talks tabloids and media theory while the king of arts publishing WALTHER KÖNIG takes us back to the first German art world boom; JUERGEN TELLER shoots KRISTEN McMENAMY in CARLO MOLLINO's Turin estate (44 pages), testing the Mollino mantra, "Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic"; New York's DIS magazine invades our Global Briefings section; 032c’s latest SELECT presents the best of this season’s books, products, and ideas; and so much more on 276 pages.

“Rei, I have a wish list for you” – JOHN WATERS on Comme des Garçons, and everything else you never thought you wanted to know about designer REI KAWAKUBO in our 40-page dossier. ARC’TERYX takes menswear to new heights of performance with its new line, Veilance; CLAUDE PARENT is rediscovered as Paris’ last supermodernist; HEDI SLIMANE does STERLING RUBY in downtown L.A.; REM KOOLHAAS discusses Moscow's new Strelka Institute, FRANCESCO VEZZOLI gives us a look into Milan's infamous club, Plastic, and DAVID SIMON, creator of HBO's The Wire, talks anger and the American city in our segment on today's unexpected places of discourse;; JOHANNESBURG provides a case study in African modernity; BJARKE INGELS is optimistic about the future thanks to artificial intelligence guru RAY KURZWEIL; TUNG WALSH captures WEISSHAAR and KRAM’s mechanical leviathan; DANKO and ANA STEINER bring on Hannelore, Tre, Sunnika, and cover-girl LAUREN SANTO DOMINGO to conclude their Manhattan trilogy; 032c's latest SELECT presents the best of this season’s books, products, and ideas; and so much more on 264 pages.

"I have become a mere recording angel," states WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN in this issue's 40-page dossier on the American author's pursuit to understand the tyrannical world. Meanwhile, PIERRE ALEXANDER DE LOOZ activates the secret Vogue history of CY TWOMBLY photographed by HORST P. HORST; publisher LORD GEORGE WEIDENFELD divulges the historical foundation of the global networking imperative in an interview with HANS ULRICH OBRIST; architect ARNO BRANDLHUBER asks how we can build architecture in the form of a discussion; artist MATTHEW BARNEY previews the Detroit chapter of his opera Ancient Evenings; designer RICK OWENS talks with CARSON CHAN about the discrete, the lurid, and the total aesthetic; director PAUL SCHRADER and king of disco GIORGIO MORODER crystallize 30 years of AMERICAN GIGOLO; artist ANDRO WEKUA stares us down with a 21st-century scenography; ALASDAIR MCLELLAN showcases LARA, DIANA, COCO, SIGRID, CAMERON, ISABELI, LILY, AGYNESS, and DREE; DANIEL SANNWALD captures a postdigital surrealism in "Aftershock Pompeii"; DANKO STEINER stages a transatlantic cabaret with ANJA, CARMEN, HANNELORE, MISSY, NATASA, and PATRICIA; art critic NIKLAS MAAK speculates on how our future could live in architecture firm SANAA’s ROLEX LEARNING CENTER; designer HIROKI NAKAMURA of VISVIM emanates product fundamentalism; the new 032c SELECT presents the best of this season's books, products, and ideas; and so much more on 284 pages …

“Our knowledge of images is my material,” says artist THOMAS DEMAND in part of our 40-page Demand Dossier featuring interviews with filmmaker TODD SOLONDZ, architect ADAM CARUSO, museum director UDO KITTELMANN, and more; meanwhile Nike CEO MARK PARKER discusses creativity, commerce, and charity; Design Director at BMW ADRIAN VAN HOOYDONK tells KONSTANTIN GRCIC about the future of the driving experience; design duo BLESS taps the Holy Grail of where fashion meets art; the MONTANA CLUB seduces Paris nightlife all over again; artist LUCAS SAMARAS pulls back the curtain on his prophetic creative vision; artist collective SLAVS & TATARS conjures ghosts of COMMUNISM past the 20th anniversary of its fall; music critic SIMON REYNOLDS on the late J.G. BALLARD’s legacy; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN captures supermodel TRISH GOFF in a Big Sur splash; DANKO STEINER sets a new New York standard with CHLOË, MISSY, LIZZI, and NATASA in “Alphabet City”; the 032c SELECT premieres with 30-plus pages of the best in this season’s books, products, and ideas; and so much more on 274 pages

“All we ever wanted was everything,” MIKE MILLS reveals in our 40-page cover special on ways of getting through the recession / depression. Meanwhile, RONNIE COOKE NEWHOUSE narrates a day in the life of her best friend PHARRELL WILLIAMS, photographed by MAX FARAGO; publisher GERHARD STEIDL races jet lag across the Atlantic from Karl Lagerfeld’s haute couture show in Paris to Robert Frank’s Canadian solitude; distinguished historian ERIC HOBSBAWM discusses his views on the future of globalization with HANS ULRICH OBRIST; artist collective SLAVS & TATARS revisits the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Tehran with the first installment of its project 79/89/09 for 032c; Belgian art collector and interior decorator AXEL VERVOORDT makes all art contemporary; AGYNESS DEYN nude story by ALASDAIR MCLELLAN; gallerist MAUREEN PALEY bares her perseverance: “It's something where you’ve been given a path that you must follow, where you don’t know what else you would do. Once you see this, many things appear that indicate the way forward for you”; curator CHRIS DERCON on artist ANISH KAPOOR’s pornography; historian KARL SCHLÖGEL trumps the heroic image of 1989; the BERLIN REVIEW reflects on nine events, projects, and people from the last six months in Berlin; and so much more on 256 pages …

"A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed," JOHN GRAY tells HANS ULRICH OBRIST about the political and financial unrest in the "Post-American Age"; photographer STEVEN MEISEL reveals fashion's cruel and beautiful in a rare interview with PIERRE ALEXANDRE DE LOOZ (plus a 14-page foldout madness of all his Vogue Italia covers); architect WES JONES illustrates Dubai and the effects of superabundance; artist ELAINE STURTEVANT tackles copy, copyright, and the ready-made; writer INGO NIERMANN portrays architect JÜRGEN MAYER H. as Germany’s greatest architecture hope since Bauhaus; art critic PETER RICHTER depicts artist RALF ZIERVOGEL’s world image in which someone exerts plausibility; artists ROTHSTAUFFENBERG stage a masquerade ball in the Grand Hotel gone bad in Mozambique; product designers ONKAR KULAR and NOAM TORAN present the MacGuffin Library; stylist JOE MCKENNA encapsulates the season’s best moments in fashion; photographers MAX FARAGO and ALASDAIR MCLELLAN bring on "THE NUDES"; entrepreneur and art collector JEAN PIGOZZI mixes glamour with getting to bed early; artist collective ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS consecrate a summer of love; the BERLIN REVIEW reflects on ten events, projects, and people from the past six months in Berlin; and so much more on 246 pages …

"A museum should really be about memory systems—the storage of memory." In our 40-page cover story on Munich's HAUS DER KUNST, REM KOOLHAAS, JACQUES HERZOG, HANS ULRICH OBRIST, and MARK WIGLEY consider the museum's history from Nazi temple to art laboratory. Meanwhile, LAM magazine transforms Moscow youth culture; art director RICHARD PANDISCIO and Marc Jacobs's ROBERT DUFFY school us in luxury marketing; photographer COLLIER SCHORR tells THOMAS DEMAND how she made Germany hers; curator OKWUI ENWEZOR explains how there are no innocents in modernism; architect GREG LYNN curves his enthusiasm; writer JONATHAN FISCHER goes inside African pop music to find the sweet jingle of desperation; MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA celebrates its 20th; filmmaker DAVID LYNCH and the invincible Raja confuse Germany; the BERLIN REVIEW reflects on ten events, projects, and people from the past six months in Berlin; and so much more on 268 pages …

"Complexity is irreducible—it is not reductionist. And this is the conviction I have and it has grown in all my work—you embrace it full on," states structural engineer CECIL BALMOND in our 40-page cover story on him and the engineering firm he heads, ARUP, photographed by WOLFGANG TILLMANS.  Cecil Balmond is a structural engineer, author, and man of ideas; he is deputy chairman at the global design and engineering firm ARUP, and director of its think-tank, the Advanced Geometry Unit. Architects Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, and Toyo Ito, among others, are indebted to his groundbreaking structural work. Both Balmond and Tillmans have dismantled the very architecture of their genres—Balmond’s genre being architecture itself, and Tillmans’s being the representational genres of portraiture and still life. A dismantling pictured and reformulated in an image essay, in which Tillmans distills an early 21st-century office life so liberated by innovation that it is uninhibited by its cubicles. Meanwhile, art director BEDA ACHERMANN indulges his fondness for beauty; artist and filmmaker SARAH MORRIS discusses China 2008, Pentagon security, and the fantasy of different times; artist TARYN SIMON questions "photography as a reliable witness" and hashes out her images' quaking presence; IDEA magazine and T's STEFANO TONCHI allow us to glimpse the future of print; artist SPARTACUS CHETWYND presents "Phantasie Fotostudio"; atelier BOW-WOW’s MOMOYO KAIJIMA argues for architecture as research; artist MIKE KELLEY surprises us with formalism; the BERLIN REVIEW reflects on ten events, projects, and people from the past six months in Berlin; and so much more on 258 pages …

“Maybe we only ever learn something when some form we think of as foreign provokes us—and we resist. But sometimes, many times, in the middle of the resistance, we end up loving this thing that has provoked us.” For 032c's 13th issue, we welcome art director MIKE MEIRÉ's redesign with new forms of energy and experimentation. Meanwhile, filmmaker WERNER HERZOG's diary of his 1974 trip from Munich to Paris—on foot—documents a radical will for survival: "When I have to get up now, a mammoth will arise"; artist ANSELM REYLE manipulates light and color; artist JONATHAN MEESE manifests conflict in bronze; art critic NIKLAS MAAK abolishes the antagonism between ecology and high tech; architect and dean MARK WIGELY theorizes on the strange life forms of architecture with writer JOACHIM BESSING; artist CYPRIEN GAILLARD vandalizes modernism; architect EINAR THORSTEINN discusses NASA, the Golden Ration, and the "real questions"; designer NAOTO FUKASAWA talks to designer KONSTANTIN GRCIC and dissolves his products into our behavior; curator ROGER M. BUERGEL serves up a "content baroque"; JEFF KOONS talks politics and fear; the three-part series AXIS OF EVIL profiles artist ANDREAS GURSKY penetrating the geo-political fortress that is North Korea, artist TREVOR PAGLEN turning his lens to the moonlight activities of the CIA, and photographer SIMON NORFOLK revealing new forms of war photography; Vogue features editor SALLY SINGER enunciates optimism and Vogue's idea of life; the BERLIN REVIEW reflects on ten events, projects, and people from the past six months in Berlin; and so much more on 256 pages …

"Our lives are threatened by imaginary sources, from images that haunt us—whether we're in the subway, getting into a plane, or living in a skyscraper. Such pictures accompany us day and night, and we become as soft as butter," proclaims political theorist HERFRIED MÜNKLER in our cover story on the POST-HEROIC world. Meanwhile, photographer OLIVER HELBIG's Iranian surfaces collide with photographer TODD EBERLE's America; novelist THOMAS PYNCHON entropies intellectual motion; VANITY FAIR's editor GRAYDON CARTER discusses conflict, idiocy, and lives worth living; BIDOUN editor NEGAR AZIMI negotiates a Middle East-to-West transmission machine; French actress AMIRA CASAR, photographed by JUERGEN TELLER, divulges an appreciation for Caspar David Friedrich, Thomas Bernhard, and metaphysics; artist RICHARD HAMILTON asks how far back we need to go to be modern in a conversation with REM KOOLHAAS and HANS ULRICH OBRIST, photographed by JUERGEN TELLER; science-fiction writer JEFF VANERMEER uncovers the beauty in alien forms; the BERLIN REVIEW reflects on eight events, projects, and people from the last six months in the great cultural laboratory; and so much more on 186 pages …

We began work on this issue with a simple question in mind: why is there so much more euphoria for Europe at the periphery, in the new and aspiring EU member states, than in the center?  "From now on, the EU will be bold, explicit, popular," states REM KOOLHAAS in our cover story on EUROPE ENDLESS. Foreign-policy thinker MARK LEONARD discusses how the European Union is as convincing an answer in the 20th century to globalization as it was to the problem of war in the 20th; AMO/OMA present a 28-page fold-out, graphic history of Europe since 1946; writer NAVID KERMANI discovers the continent's enthusiasm at its farthest edges; historian TONY JUDT tells how the West was an accident; writer KODWO ESHUN and photographer JUERGEN TELLER portray architect DAVID ADJAYE; artist collective SLAVS & TATARS redeem the East in Eastern Europe; artist / musician LINDER STERLING makes irony yield to the mythic again; artist MATTHEW BARNEY explores the sexual transmission between man and machine; writer DIETMAR DATH provokes the culture industry's center with drastic arts; art critic HARALD FRICKE on artist MARC BRANDENBURG’s dark power of signs; 1970s band THROBBING GRISTLE inaugurates both the beginning and end of pop; photographer TODD EBERLE exposes his Berlin diary; the BERLIN REVIEW reflects on nine events, projects, and people from the last six months in the great cultural laboratory; and so much more on 192 pages …

In celebration of the 10th issue, 032c has collaborated with Niklas Maak (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and Ashley Heath (The Face, Arena Homme+) as guest editors to find ten phenomena in which the contemporary unmistakably manifests itself. Because there is a movement interested in what might be made of the opportunities and challenges of our time—technologically, aesthetically, and socially. "The omnipresent retro-aesthetic is the most visible sign of a collective aesthetic and political paralysis. An entire generation has given up on its present and wallows in the forms of the past." Artist THOMAS DEMAND rebuilds the surfaces and lines of the Lamborghini Gallardo, a car whose form bears no reference to the past; OMA's Casa da Música spirals in Porto as the last cowboy of modernism; Vogue Paris editor CARINE ROITFELD and art director FABIEN BARON flaunt their magazine; photographer OLIVER HELBIG celebrates Europe in Istanbul; SUNN O))) makes abstract music visceral and one-ups rock 'n' roll; collector INGVILD GOETZ takes art beyond the déjà vu; politician HERMANN SCHEER pits the beautiful world of renewable energy against our industrial, archaic economy; structural engineer WERNER SOBEK discovers the aesthetic potential of solar technology; writer CHRISTIAN SCHWÄGERL unleashes the brain research that makes consciousness visible; designer KONSTANTIN GRCIC and architect GIO PONTI live dangerously and felicitously contemporary; art critic HARALD FRICKE unveils artist DOUGLAS GORDON’s pact with eternity; director CHRISTIAN PETZHOLD on the violence of locations; the BERLIN REVIEW reflects on nine evens, projects, and people from the last six months in the great cultural laboratory; and so much more on 200 pages …

"The extreme compression—the thickness—of the present, as we've only just now become able to experience it, brings with it an acceleration and a deceleration simultaneously—that's why it's also become extremely difficult to differentiate between the just past and the present," says curator CHRIS DERCON on his theory of SYNCHRO-TIME. Meanwhile, artist JAN DE COCK mixes Minimalism in Basque Country; Hungarian photographer GYÖRGY LÖRINCZY documents the feverish instability of downtown New York in the 1970s; artist collective ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS flaunts what's sexy, devastating, awesome, and precious; artist CARSTEN NICOLAI pulses crystals with sound; writer DAVID FRANKEL uncovers the perfect absurdity about 1970s cult magazine ART-RITE; fashion historian CAROLINE EVANS distills HUSSEIN CHALAYAN's utopia; VITO ACCONCI practices an un-monumental architecture; photography duo INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE and VINOODH MATADIN showcase MAN; photographer LEONORE MAU captures the Angel of History, rituals, and ethnography; art critic NIKLAS MAAK says goodbye to retro-futurism; writer ULF POSCHARDT on PRADA’s “Thunder Perfect Mind”; artist JONATHAN MEESE screams, “Richard Wagner is the greatest! He is his own law”; the Berlin Review reflects on ten events, projects, and people from the last six months in the great cultural laboratory; and so much more on 176 pages …

SPACE BEGINS BECAUSE WE LOOK AWAY FROM WHERE WE ARE: From LEWIS BALTZ's prophetic images of the new industrial parks near Irvine, California in 1974 to the auto-generated red melted sugar landscapes by HERZOG DE MEURON, this issue features experiences and perceptions of space.  "Without the user, all that's there is material—and no space. I'm not presenting any sort of utopia, but rather, simply the possibility of how the space in front of my nose might be seen differently," states artist OLAFUR ELIASSON in an interview with writer JOACHIM BESSING. Meanwhile, photographer TAIJI MATSUE transforms landscapes into surfaces; artist LEWIS BALTZ prophesies in California's empty industrial parks; architects HERZOG & DE MEURON melt topographies with sugar landscapes; art director HIDEKI NAKAJIMA distorts inner space; writer BRUCE CHATWIN visits KONSTANTIN MELNIKOV's dilapidating Constructivist home in Moscow; photographer NICK KNIGHT reinvents fashion media with SHOWstudio; photographer STEVEN KLEIN paints BRAD PITT; writer ALEXANDER VON SHÖNBURG explains actor HELMUT BERGER’s angels, demons, and having all the parties; publisher and designer JOP VAN BENNEKOM speaks with Editor-in-Chief of Interview magazine INGRID SISCHY about 35 years of Pop; TIME CAPSULE communicates the remarkable people, projects, and moments of our time; and so much more on 183 pages …

AT WAR WITH THE OBVIOUS: From the implosion of the white cube to the tristesse of Berlin, this issue presents positions that strike against the unholy trinity of cool, taste and ignorance.  “The obvious is as omnipresent and stylish as it is inconspicuous and banal, yet possesses no attitude—it is the Western world's depressing vanishing point.” Photographer GREGOR SCHNEIDER exposes the underbelly of "517 West 24th Street, New York"; graphic designer PETER SAVILLE finds something in everything; photographer BENJAMIN ALEXANDER HUSEBY unveils tomorrows; Comme des Garçons designer REI KAWAKUBO presents the subtleties of bold shades of perception; artist MASAO MOCHIZUKI archives television; writer EMILY KING dissects ARCHIS—the magazine as monster; fashion historian CAROLINE EVANS explains how designer ALEXANDER MCQUEEN magics images and ideas out of air; musician BRIAN ENO and artist PETER SCHMIDT deal out perforated cards of oblique strategies; architect YONA FRIEDMAN mobilizes un-built cities; historian ERIC HOBSBAWM tells writer CHRISTIAN ESCH how Marxism wasn't Main Street; architect JAN KAPLICKY speaks with artist MARIA FUSCO about the sublime, surface wreckage, and fashion; writer JOACHIM BESSING asks filmmaker ROMUALD KARMAKAR how to rattle consensus; and so much more on 128 pages …

WHEN ATTITUDE BECOMES FORM: From the Cremaster field to the new domestic landscape, this issue presents the attitudes that shape forms through different times and media: 032c's entirely subjective selection of the movements that liberate us from conformity.  Photographer SØLVE SUNDSBØ captures the monument of isolation; UNDERCOVER designer JUN TAKAHASHI blinds prophets, dignitaries, and other cultural icons in a series of black-and-white illustrations; writers and graffiti artists NUG & PIKE collide tagging with trance rituals; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN finds adolescence's last idyll; artist MATTHEW BARNEY takes us behind the scenes of his CREMASTER CYCLE; writer EMILY KING digs up ASPEN magazine’s protest against uniformity; stylist and accessories designer JUDY BLAME talks with MARK HOOPER about Buffalo style, his dodgy relationship to the public, and looking stubbornly different; architecture movements SUPERSTUDIO and ARCHIZOOM disappear design; graphic designer and publisher JOP VAN BENNEKOM finds a language that is "part of" things, not hovering "above" them; artist LIAM GILLICK plasters public information posters; writer and filmmaker ALEXANDER KLUGE elaborates on what it takes to define a social climate and being able to "throw it away if it amounts to nothing”; and so much more on 120 pages …

A combination of East and West, Shanghai was the temporary autonomous zone of poverty, refinement, and decadence in the 1920s and 30s. Now, Shanghai hypnotizes with an urban explosion and rapid modernization: This issue captures Shanghai's state of mind in 2003. "Some cities are just constructed in concrete, but some can ignite our collective fantasy and make a grand promise of change and excitement. They capture our imagination before we have even visited the city. Much like Berlin, Shanghai projects a larger-than-life shadow on the observer." 032c workshop documents the acceleration of the city, while photographers OLIVER HELBIG and HEJI SHIN bird eye its deconstruction / construction; artist YANG FUDONG reveals love in an estranged paradise, while graphic designer SHEN HAPENG spackles calligraphy; photographer WING SHYA depicts insomnia in a sleepless city, while photographer SAIMON FUJIO revels in its dreamscape; 032c workshop edits a SHANGHAI DATASCAPE culled from a variety of sources to test the possibilities of experiencing speed, density, and verticality by statistics; and much more on 96 pages …

EMBRACE INSTABILITY localizes moments of instability in different places and times: From riot on the streets of Tokyo, 1969, to the beauty of snow crystals, this issue celebrates the unstable states where anything can happen. “Tracking the trajectory of any system, one may find that, in certain situations, the trajectory becomes less and less stable and disintegrates into a multitude of new trajectories.” Photographer MICHAEL SCHMIDT takes us back to West Berlin in the 1980s; artist CARSTEN NICOLAI juxtaposes unpredictable models of self-organization; photographer DAIDO MORIYAMA affects provocation with 1960s Japan; photographer HEJI SHIN portrays female relationships; graphic designer MARKUS WEISBECK / SURFACE challenges the white cube and black box with new spatial parameters; fashion historian CAROLINE EVANS explores whether COMME DES GARÇONS makes us objects or subjects; editor ASHLEY HEATH talks with MARK HOOPER about the beauty of pop in its mess and confusion; art critic NIKLAS MAAK reveals MEXICO CITY in its fragile equilibrium of desire and fear; architect YONA FRIEDMAN offers up the best possible universe where anything can happen; writer and theorist EUGENE THACKER on the science fictioning of biotechnology; and much more on 112 pages …

“We are entering the age of the liquefaction of form,” states design firm VOGT + WEIZENEGGER in 032c’s third issue on WHAT'S NEXT. Writer DARIO AZZELLINI interviews TUTE BIANCHE activists on the beginnings and background of the Italian political movement; artists / musicians CHICKS ON SPEED find out what LE TIGRE thinks of women and Europe; artist FLORIAN PUMHÖSL photographs a missile manufacturer; designer JEREMY SCOTT clothes Madonna in dollar bills; art critic PETER RICHTER exposes the clash between the will and the actual ways of Berlin; art critic NIKLAS MAAK reveals architecture's burgeoning biomorphic forms; artist CARSTEN HÖLLER writes on doubt, productivity, and the state of rotation; designer HELMUT LANG talks about fashion's business proportions, how there are no new means of expression and no cause for new expression, and how to act with extreme individuality; club operator and photographer BEN DE BIEL, director DEBORAH SCHAMONI, and political scientist SULTAN KARIMI provide a kaleidoscopic view on Berlin beyond the hype by talking about their jobs; visual contributions by FOUNDATION 33, CHEWING THE SUN, MASAMICHI KATAYAMA, and HIDEKI NAKAJIMA; and much more on 48 pages …

"This constant flow necessitates that old ideas are destroyed and demands that new ones are created," states fashion director ANNE CHRISTENSEN in 032c's second issue, on destruction. Artist SANTIAGO SIERRA pays the poor to be tattooed; sociologist WOLFGANG KRAUSHAAR on GUSTAV METZGER's auto-destructive art and its influence in rock music; photographer MARIO TESTINO slashes a model in red; photographer MICHAEL MANN escapes the boundaries of realism; designer RAF SIMONS redresses youth; writer ULF POSCHARDT on the nature of destruction in fashion and architecture; art critic NIKLAS MAAK reveals the sweet revenge of the PALAST DER REPUBLIK, Berlin; architect CEDRIC PRICE speaks with HANS ULRICH OBRIST about how time is the fourth dimension; music journalist HEIKO HOFFMAN delineates nine destructive moments in music; artist RICHARD PHILLIPS shatters beauty; Architecture collective 37.6°, musician HANIN ELIAS, and writer and programmer SEBASTIAN LUETGERT provide a kaleidoscopic view on Berlin beyond the hype by talking about their jobs; graphic contributions by BÜRO DESTRUCT, MIKE MEIRÉ, and MIRKO BORSCHE; and much more on 48 pages …

"PROFESSIONALISM is used and abused to justify the unjustifiable, the boring, the banal. If it only meant caring enough about what you do and who you work with to make fanaticism, argument, neuroses, crises, the passions of the heart, total psycho meltdown, examples of its appearance as much as its disappearance, I'd sign up to it. As it stands, I doubt I will," states publisher PAULINE VAN MOURIK BROEKMAN in 032c's premiere issue. Filmmaker HARMONY KORINE postulates The Bad Son with Macaulay Culkin; writer GARY WOLF discusses architect FRANK GEHRY’S “minimal friction” and architect REM KOOLHAAS's "generous cruelty"; writer and new media scholar MATTHEW FULLER brings the Internet to the Caribbean countryside and ghettos; writer DAVID HUDSON on how dot-coms became uncool; MORITZ VON USLAR talks to RAF (Red Army Faction) terrorist MANFRED GRASHOF on how to survive underground; JESKO FEZER details in a short story the daily routines of METABOLISM in Japanese architecture and urban development; designer HEDI SLIMANE waits for Catherine Deneuve in the recording studio; filmmaker CHRISTOPHER ROTH proves that no one stops footballer Figo; photographer DANIEL JOSEFSOHN takes us into JACK NICHOLSON’s bedroom; designer VLADIMIR KAGAN explains how after being a legendary professional, he’s now interested in the games people play; furniture gallerist HANS-PETER JOCHUM, security advisor SMILEY BALDWIN, and fashion design INES KAAG of BLESS provide a kaleidoscopic view on Berlin beyond the hype by talking about their jobs; graphic contributions by VOGT + WEIZENEGGER, MILK, MINA HAGEDORN, GOB SQUAD, WENDY & JIM, DAVID LINDERMANN, and KATE MERKLE;  and much more on 48 pages …